The reform of the continuing teachers’ training system in Ukraine is meant to provide teachers with the opportunities for professional development and lifelong learning according to the requirements ...set by the State education policy, employers and key stakeholders. This implies creation of flexible competitive educational environment using mobile advanced training programs and modernization of content, forms, methods techniques of teaching. The authors present a set of andragogic and psychological assessment instruments to use for continuing teachers’ training, including feedback questionnaires, complex questionnaires, blitz polls, tests, selection of monitoring methods on teachers’ professional and lifelong development.
Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as economic success, health, family stability, and social connections. Theories of stratification and selection ...created doubts about whether education actually caused good things to happen. Because schools and colleges select who continues and who does not, it was easy to imagine that education added little of substance. Evidence now tips the balance away from bias and selection and in favor of substance. Investments in education pay off for individuals in many ways. The size of the direct effect of education varies among individuals and demographic groups. Education affects individuals and groups who are less likely to pursue a college education more than traditional college students. A smaller literature on social returns to education indicates that communities, states, and nations also benefit from increased education of their populations; some estimates imply that the social returns exceed the private returns.
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Divergent findings on trends in inequalities in educational attainment associated with individuals' social origins have led to much discussion of how far these reflect real differences by place and ...time or, rather, differences in research procedures. But in this latter regard, one issue has received relatively little attention: i.e. that of the conceptualization and measurement of social origins. We propose decomposing social origins into parental class, parental status, and parental education. Following this approach, we analyse data from three British birth cohort studies. We show that these three components of social origins have independent and distinctive effects on educational attainment, and ones that persist or change in differing ways across the cohorts. We also make some assessment of their combined effects. We consider the methodological implications of our findings, in particular for analyses of trends in educational inequalities, and, further, how they might result from other, independently established, changes in social stratification in Britain over the historical period covered.
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The article analyses scientific discourse on non-formal education and highlights the prerequisites for its transformation into a leading trend in the modern education system. It justifies this ...educational trend systemically and methodologically. Likewise the article proves the deactualization of interpretations of non-formal education as an auxiliary link in professional and personal development. It shows that underestimating one’s potential leads to social losses and direct economic costs. The research is based on the following algorithm: generalizing findings of a terminological analysis of non-formal education; determining its links with formal and informal components of the education system; specifying factors in strengthening its role in modern society; visualizing findings with Eurostat’s statistical information on participation rate in education and training (last 4 weeks) by type, sex, age and educational attainment level obtained between 2010 and 2019. Finally, the article analyzes how the outcomes of non-formal education are recognized all over the world. It discloses the experience of some countries regarding the mechanisms of recognizing learning outcomes obtained outside of formal education.
The incorporation of technology into everyday life has become the core of the learning process of older adults. However, how technology is implemented in senior learning environments is not well ...known. This study employed a multiple case research method focused on understanding employment, adjustment, and revision of the teaching strategies used by experienced instructors at senior learning centers. The results indicate that the instructors developed different teaching strategies when teaching older learners, which included: 1) Reserved teaching: where instructors reserve some of the learning content, so elderly learners can continue their learning of a topic if they continue to participate in the same class; 2) Unscripted performance: where instructors flexibly adjust or jump outside the box of the previously scheduled teaching content to respond to ever-changing learning situations and the needs of the elderly learners, and 3) Assistance from peers: where instructors can ease the one-to-many teaching burden and also strengthen the learning confidence of the elderly.
•Elderly learn technology requires different education pedagogy.•Reserved teaching can create a familiar but fresh feeling for elder learners.•Unscripted teaching cope with ever-changing learning situations for elderly learners.•Create a little helper from the elderly learners is critical in elderly teaching.
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COVID-19 has affected the lives of people around the world, including educators and students. Both teachers and students need more and more tools to stay connected and engaged in the learning ...process. Distance learning for the safety of students and their teachers has become a necessity therefore the world is increasingly concerned with finding options for education in online classrooms so that students and teachers can find new ways to continue to focus on learning. Through this article we try to identify tools to provide an online classroom that brings students and teachers together face to face, homework, files, and conversations in one place accessible either on mobile, tablet, computer or browser.
The reversal of the gender gap in education has potentially far-reaching consequences for marriage markets, family formation, and relationship outcomes. One possible consequence is the growing number ...of marriages in which wives have more education than their husbands. Past research shows that this type of union is at higher risk of dissolution. Using data on marriages formed between 1950 and 2004 in the United States, we evaluate whether this association has persisted as the prevalence of this relationship type has increased. Our results show a large shift in the association between spouses' relative education and marital dissolution. Specifically, marriages in which wives have the educational advantage were once more likely to dissolve, but this association has disappeared in more recent marriage cohorts. Another key finding is that the relative stability of marriages between educational equals has increased. These results are consistent with a shift away from rigid gender specialization toward more flexible, egalitarian partnerships, and they provide an important counterpoint to claims that progress toward gender equality in heterosexual relationships has stalled.
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